I was a guest speaker at a class at UMass yesterday. Old pal BJ Roche, who I have known for decades, invited me to speak to her feature writing class. The students were mostly interested in writing for magazines, none said they wanted to be travel writers. I showed them […]
Looking for History is a new book that came to me from old friend and super-reader Kent St. John. It is subtitled “dispatches from Latin America’ and written by Alma Guillermoprieto. The first chapter is about Eva Duarte, who became the Evita we have all heard about from the Madonna […]
Television often lives up to its billing, surprising as that is to say. Last night’s viewing included several well done reality shows. First up was “boss swap,” where two car dealers exchanged sales managers. The first dealership was, improbably, run entirely by women. The second shop specialized in exotic cars, […]
I was walking down 50th St. and smelled the sweet, unmistakable smell of burning reefer. Then I saw these two gents passing a big doobie back and forth here at their construction site.
Kent St. John, our Senior Travel Editor at GoNOMAD.com, has jumped on the blogging train full tilt. His new blog will be called Be Our Guest, and provide readers with details, photos and other tidbits about his travels and about the life of a travel editor. His next few months […]
Kirstie Alley has the last laugh and deserves it. The former Cheers siren, who is famous for National Enquirer photos and her weight, landed a new TV series on Showtime that focuses on the subject of weight. She refuses to run away from herself and has written a new series […]
We met Jen Leo today at the NY Times Travel show. IT was great to put a person with a name, we’ve been in touch for a while about the interview we ran with Jen and about her wonderful writtenroad.com blog. Jen is going to be a poker player this […]
We took in the New York Times Travel show today at the Javits Center. A little more subdued than the show where we exhibit, that is sponsored by the NY Post. But we met some interesting people, including a bus/dev lass from igougo.com, a great site that is very deep […]
We had a visit from Jaclyn Stevenson, a Senior Writer for BusinessWest magazine. She had been planning a story about GoNOMAD.com for a while and a recent decision to turn this venerable monthly into a bi-weekly sped up the deadline. She came to the office and sat for an interview […]
It is rare to meet a person who really listens. Truly sits down, faces you, and pulls out what it is on your mind. Even when you take a detour and change the subject, they steer the conversation back to you. WOW! that feels as good as the blazing fire […]
A guy I used to work with at the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Cosmo Macero, has become a columnist for the Boston Herald. Here that paper’s top boss talks about the competition. from Boston magazine:Ken Chandler, the Herald’s top editor, says: “The Globe isn’t the first paper I read. And I […]